Water of the Sky

A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words

2025 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Art (Adult Nonfiction)
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Artist Miya Ando's beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain collects 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings to describe the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence.